[IO Islamic 2791] تحفة العراقين
<ul> <li><strong>Tuḥfat-al’irâḳain.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 954 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 2791 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>954</p> <p>A slightly defective copy of the same.</p> <p>This copy begins abruptly in the prose preface, on fol. 1<sup>a</sup>, with the words:..... در آسمان بر مساكين گشاده دارد الخ, corresponding to No. 262 (952 above), fol. 2<sup>a</sup>, l. 3 ab infra (<em>one</em> leaf missing). Beginning of the mathnawî, on fol. 3<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>At the end on fol. 77<sup>a</sup> a short epilogue in prose, giving an account of the six maḳâlas into which the poem is divided,- viz.: 1.عرائس الفكر و مجالس الذكر (here beginning on fol. 3<sup>a</sup>). 2 معراج العقول (here on fol. 6<sup>b</sup>). 3.فى وصف بلاد عراق و همدان و مدينة السّلام بغداد و مدائح اصحاب هؤلآء البلاد تسمّى سبحة الاوتاد الخ (here on fol. 23<sup>a</sup>) 4.فى اوصاف الكوفة و المدينة و هؤلآء البلاد و يسمّى موارد الاوراد و خزانة الاوتاد (here on fol. 33<sup>a</sup>). 5. فى وصف مدينة الرسول الخ و هى تسمّى بهداية الهدى الخ الى المهدى (in the epilogue مدينة الهدى الى المهدى) (here on fol. 42<sup>b</sup>). 6 فى وصف الشام و الموصل و اصحاب هؤلآء البلاد الخ (here on fol. 53<sup>a</sup>),- and the number of baits in each.</p> <p>Dated, as it seems, A.H. 1078 (A.D. 1667, 1668).</p> <p>The copy is greatly injured in many places, but as carefully mended as possible. Bibliotheca Leydeniana.</p> <p>No. 2791, ff. 77, 2 coll., each ll. 21; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8<sup>3/8</sup> in. by 5<sup>1/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
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